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Niš Airport in talks with Wizz Air, Air Serbia and Pegasus

Niš Constantine the Great Airport is in talks with several airlines, including Wizz Air, Air Serbia and Pegasus Airlines, over the introduction of new services from the south-east Serbian city. It comes two weeks following the successful launch of Wizz Air’s flights from Malmo and Basel to Niš, marking the airport’s first commercial services in over a year and a half. The low cost airline has said it is satisfied with the performance of its two routes so far. Wizz Air’s head of Corporate Communications, Daniel de Carvalho, noted that the airline hopes to replicate its Tuzla success in Niš. The airline opened its twentieth base in Tuzla two weeks ago. “Niš has become what Tuzla was for us back in 2013”, Mr de Carvalho said. The Managing Director of Niš Airport, Vladica Djurdjanović, believes the airline will introduce additional routes from the city in 2016. “They are satisfied with the number of passengers and they have announced that maybe from next year there will be additional routes”. Previously, Mr Djudjardjanovic said the no frills carrier is planning on opening a base in Niš in 2016.

Constantine the Great Airport will resume talks with Air Serbia later this month regarding potential services. “Air Serbia will renew talks with us by mid-July and then we will know what sort of cooperation we will have with them. I’m optimistic and I expect good news”, the Mayor of Niš, Zoran Perišić, said. The airport will propose for the national carrier to operate flights to Vienna and Zurich, which it believes would be profitable. “There are destinations Air Serbia could fly to, which are commercially viable, such as Vienna and Zurich. These are the two most profitable routes from Niš”, Mr Djurdjanović noted. In late April, Air Serbia said it was not interested in flying to the city.

Meanwhile, Turkey’s Pegasus Airlines has shown interest in launching flights from Istanbul to Niš. The airline has requested additional information and general terms from the airport. According to Mr Djurdjanović, the airline has been provided with all of the requested documentation and they are in the process of analysing the data. City authorities have said that another low cost airline had expressed interest in flying to Niš, but gave up on the idea after the city refused to issue it with subsidies amounting to 200.000 euros. Several other airlines have expressed interest to introduce services to the city. One is said to be eying flights from Tivat and the other from Osijek, offering onward connections to Stuttgart and Frankfurt. The airport refused to reveal the names of the carriers involved.

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AtlasJet failed because those were charter flights to AYT, so technically an agency that sold them failed (+ people from Southern Serbia tend to go to Greece for holidays). Pegasus would be scheduled flight to SAW, and there is enough demand for those flights to succeed. also, Pegasus doesn't fly to SOF, so they can catch some Bulgarians too

few Wizzair routesPegasus or Turkish to ISTAir Serbia or Austrian to VIEAir Serbia or Swiss to ZRHAir Serbia or Aeroflot to SVOMontenegro to Tivat (summer for tourists once per week)Few summer charters to Greece, Tunisia and/or Turkey

and that's it. Airports like Niš of Tuzla must find some other carriers not to allow Wizz to blackmail them too much. On that way they have alternative in case Wizz cut lines.

In our region they stop flying to ZAG and DBV. But let me remind you how they cut plans in PRG when they announce to open base like in BUD when CSA start to cut flights. And today PRG base has just 7 routes. In Cluj they close base and now have just 9 from previous 25 flights per week. They also cut Kiev flights to just 8 routes, Belgrade for 50%... Here is list of Wizz terminated routes:

I have no idea what can be commended if it's all about such a ruined airport with just one route and not even daily flights to nearby Belgrade. All things are put upside down at BNX. And it's been like that from the word go. It may be, INN-NS likes to make jokes much.

In addition, BH Airlines stopped its operations to Zurich more than a month ago and the managing board hasn't contracted any other company to keep this route alive. The board of directors had to have known the closure was going to happen to JA. But they didn't!

A 50 seat airliner such as Saab2000 or ATR42 or even ATR72 would match. But they are not able to find any interested airline. I'm not sure they have tried to! The people lost the opportunity to travel to ZRH using this route! What is worse, it could be, EU airlines intentionally avoid flying to BNX because they are conscious nothing is in a good shape or condition there, neither the terminal building, nor the services. And the airlines for sure know neither the BNX directors nor the heads of the sectors and services speak acceptable English. What is worse, they are barely adequately educated for such positions and are not familiar with both ICAO and IATA recommended practice. But the bribery and corruption at all levels in the Republic of Srpska, and especially at the highest levels, stubbornly keeps such directors in the driving seat.

OSI-ZAG, PUY-ZAG, ZAD-ZAG, all 3 are 2 - 2,5 hours, all 3 connected by highway/motorway, and all 3 operated daily or double daily. INI maight have fewer tourists, but has definitely more diaspora and is much bigger city then the 3 mentioned

There are almost 50 busses/day between Belgrade and Nis. Air Serbia should fly between Belgrade and Nis. With the right marketing and promotions and including a bus that picked you up at the plane to take you downtown, there could be O&D traffic as well as feeding routes to all their other destinations. Direct flights from Nis abroad seems unfeasible.

230 km. It would be one of the shorters route in World. It is more than stupid to open route for 230 km espetialy with standard in Serbia. I can understand Graz-Vienna, with their standard there would be 200 pax per day, but in Serbia? Come on!

The problem is that ASL has no proper aircraft for such route. That is ATR42-600! This airliner can be used fore some other commercial flights to ex-Yu airports to collect passengers for their long-haule routes.Do they want to make BEG a hub or not!

It really seems that particularly Austrian lets a whole bunch of ex yu routes slip through its fingers. INI, year round SPU (winter with Dash) and BNX/TZL would most likely all suit well as part of their destination portfolio and can with high probability all be served viably with their economic and suitable Q400s. Seems like half of Vienna is from Ex-Yu so O&D should be enormous - also transfer market should be considerably big as there is very little competition disregarding LCCs which can be used for O&D only.

Being in the same Alliance, OS codeshares on OU flights from ZAG to SPU (and DBV). TK, too. SK codeshares via ZAG to/from SJJ and SKP. But generally I agree that SPU could feed OS in VIE throughout the year. BNX and TZL, not so sure about

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